Meet outside the museum entrance at 2:00 PM.
PV5: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußische Kulturbesitz
Abt. Medien – Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, Musikethnologie, Visuelle Anthropologie
The Media Department of the Ethnological Museum – National Museums Berlin, holds important collections reflecting more than 100 years of ethnomusicological research and recording technology: the famous historical collections of the Berlin Phonogram Archive, ethnomusicological sound recordings as well as musical instruments from seven decades and the Visual Anthropology collections.
The tour will focus on the wax cylinder recordings of the Berlin Phonogram Archive, made between 1893 and 1952, and approach questions of digitization, research, access, and publication.
